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Donald Trump suggests 'one rough hour' of policing will end theft

Sep. 30, 2024 12:04 PM EDT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump has suggested that “one rough hour” of law enforcement action would tamp down retail theft, an echo of his longstanding support for more aggressive and potentially violent policing. “One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word...

Trump accepts key endorsement from police union while celebrating sentencing delay on felony charges

Sep. 06, 2024 23:39 PM EDT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Donald Trump accepted a key endorsement from one of the nation's most influential law enforcement lobbies on Friday by offering a sweeping indictment of the U.S. legal system that has convicted him of almost three dozen felony counts and indicted him in three other pending...

Election 2024 Latest: Judge postpones sentencing in Trump's hush money case until after the election

Sep. 06, 2024 16:04 PM EDT

A judge has agreed to postpone Donald Trump ’s sentencing in his New York hush money case until after the November election. Judge Juan M. Merchan said in his decision Friday that he wanted to avoid any perception that the sentence was intended to tilt the scales in the...